Message from @wacka
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It's **ANNUIT COEPTIS**
Nodding in appreciation of the British efforts
yes
The US actually de facto gained some territory out of the War of 1812
by occupying what are now the Mississippi and Alabama panhandles, which were purchased in the Louisiana Purchase but which Spain claimed weren't, and they remained occupied until Spain ended the territorial dispute by selling us the entirety of Florida a few years later
I mean occupying Spanish territory was all the rage in that period
And it would continue to be so until the US beat them down in 1898
KNOW YOUR PLACE, TRASH
Spain is genuinely the worse colonising European nations
The Dutch looks amazing in comparison
Yup, it shocked me reading accounts comparing the US to Spain in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, just how hard Spain either neglected or actively fucked over their possessions
tbf Napoleon fucked them over badly
and it was a downward spiral from there
```In 1929 Worcester wrote of Americans giving Manila a modern sewer system, supplying city dwellers with "comparatively pure drinking water" and wiping out diseases such as small pox, cholera and bubonic plague. Worcester wrote of skilled medical and surgical services being sent to the Philippines. He wrote about teaching boys and girls "the elements of good sanitation," about overcoming Filipino prejudice against hospitals, about new care for lepers and a more humane care for the insane "who were previously chained to floors or posts." Girls, he wrote, are being taught to cook and to sew, and boys are learning woodworking, ironworking and other useful trades. And he wrote of the US policy of denying liquor to tribal peoples.```
```Worcester boasted of the US-inspired economic advances in the Philippines, of road building, an improved mail service, more and better wharves and harbors for inter-island and international shipping. He spoke of the need for improvements in the rice industry in the Philippines, for better irrigation and better seed selection. He spoke of lifting the Filipinos out of "primitive production methods" in its sugar industry, without which, he said, the Filipinos will not be able to compete successfully in the world's sugar market. And he criticized US sugar interests for conspiring to prevent advances in the Filipino sugar industry.
Worcester boasted of the US giving the Philippines "religious liberty, free speech and a free press." He wrote of a determined US effort to break up slavery and peonage, something he claimed the "easy-going Spaniards" had never done. He wrote also of the all-Filipino legislature, which he described as premature but a blessing nevertheless. Worcester favored going slowly toward independence but he saw its eventuality. "Both of our great political parties," he wrote, "are committed to the policy of granting independence when the Filipinos are ready for it."```
did they vote yet?
on?
Yeah even if you hate the British empire at the very least they were massively anti-slavery
When they weren't building Confederate ships and harboring their ships and terrorists, at least
Annoying the Yanks is top priority, even if it means siding with slavers
this will be fun
ORDER
329 yes
299
nos
the timetable?
Oh right, so they approved the deal, but not the timetable
I am taking that is a bad thing if they don't approve the timetable?
That's what I was wondering
Apparently if this vote passes, the UK will be out on the 31st
LOCK THE DOOOOOORS
308-322
The noes have it
ORDEeer
So what does that mean?
no brexit
means boris is about to force trough a GE.. and labour will be lucky to get a seat
no deal
PLEASE!!!
Then again people will go crazy if he announces that he is going for no deal
They shouldn't blame Boris for going for no deal,parliament kind of put him in the situation now.